Programming

Speeding up code review with `small-change`

Principles of Anchor Engineering

Developing for Debugging (2025)

The 2026 Maintainers Summit

Where is all the new, good software?

How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code

Composition over Inheritance Explained using Retro Games

A rant about APIs

Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

Deploy Ruby on Rails on a VPS

The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

How to work in a software engineering team (2022)

Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket

What Improves Developer Productivity at Google? Code Quality

Abstract: Understanding what affects software developer productivity can help organizations choose wise investments in their technical and social en…

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

Keep if clauses side-effect free

katamari architecture

The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want

Markdown in /src

Vale, code-like linting for prose

Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI

1Password's AI patching benchmark is misleading

"Do You Still Read the Code?"

What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

Interested in hearing your opinions, I usually learn a lot from it. For me it has to be Parse, Don’t Validate and early joelonsoftware.

Why Am I Still Programming

"Hammock Driven Development" (2010)

Leverage Code Review for Sustainable AI Coding Development

"Simple Made Easy" (2011)

Every once in a while I come across this video again, and I always end up watching the whole thing. I'm sad I was never able to make it to a Strange…

The revolt of the reader

Anatomy of a Test